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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 13, 2007Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2007, 5:13 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 17 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2007, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2007, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 13, 5:13 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	3 S Duncanville, AL	QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH OF DUNCANVILLE.
Feb 13, 5:23 PM CST	HAIL 1	3 E Duncanville, AL	QUARTER SIZED HAIL AT THE COUNTY LINE GROCERY...NEAR THE BIBB...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY LINE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 13, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 132313
TORBMX
ALC125-132330-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0029.070213T2313Z-070213T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
513 PM CST TUE FEB 13 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 513 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR            
  DUNCANVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF BRENT...MOVING EAST AROUND 
  30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
ON THE WEB WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX (SUBMIT A STORM REPORT)
CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3310 8746 3311 8744 3311 8731 3310 8732
      3301 8732 3301 8743 3302 8744 3302 8750
      3310 8750

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 132315
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
515 PM CST TUE FEB 13 2007

ALC125-132330-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-070213T2330Z/
TUSCALOOSA AL-
515 PM CST TUE FEB 13 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY...

AT 510 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR 
DUNCANVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF HOLT...MOVING EAST AT 30 
MPH. IN ADDITION...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS IS LIKELY.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3310 8746 3311 8744 3311 8731 3310 8732
      3301 8732 3301 8743 3301 8746 3302 8750
      3308 8747

$$

STEFKOVICH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	28 min
Feb 13, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	32 min
Feb 13, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	49 min
Feb 13, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	30 min
Feb 13, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Tuscaloosa	51 min
Feb 13, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	52 min
Feb 13, 4:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa	44 min
Feb 13, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Perry	38 min
Feb 13, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Hale, Perry	52 min
Feb 13, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	45 min
Feb 13, 5:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bibb	39 min
Feb 13, 5:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	48 min
Feb 13, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	65 min
Feb 13, 5:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa	61 min
Feb 13, 5:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Dallas, Perry	39 min
Feb 13, 5:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Shelby	44 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.